In the inaugural episode of Curiosity, Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Who or what created the universe in which we live? The groundbreaking series Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) combined cutting-edge computer graphics with Hawking's witty, distinctive and incisive worldview. Now, we take the journey a step further, as physics and cosmology become tools to answer questions that philosophers have struggled with for thousands of years.

Includes 5 episodes: Did God Create the Universe?, Alien Invasion: Are We Ready?, What's Beneath America?, How Will the World End?, The Creation Question: A Curiosity ConversationBonus: The Creation Question: A Curiosity Conversation

Bad, disgraceful science and production shortcuts in the first episode:1) Animation shows the Moon moving in the wrong direction across the face of the Sun during a solar eclipse. In its orbital motion the Moon moves from right to left across the face of the Sun, not from left to right.2) The narrative says the shadow of the Earth moves across the Moon during a lunar eclipse. It does not. The Moon moves into and through the shadow of the Earth.3) A video sequence intended to show the Sun rising is actually a video of the Sun setting and played in reverse. In the northern hemisphere the Sun rises upward and toward the right (south) not upward and toward the left (north).

I find this well worth the cost and well done, providing an excellent reframing of age-old human concerns as thought-provoking questions, ones that few dare ask in the age of political correctness and religious fanaticism. I shall give this to my son and daughter-in-law as a wedding present and quote Confucius, who wrote "Man should never lose his red, [innocent] child-like heart" (Never lose your sense of wonder) and ask them to learn these things, to enrich their journey through life together.